Turning the Homeless Into 4G Hotspots at SXSW
It sounds like a headline from The Onion, but it’s true: A project called “Homeless Hotspots” is turning homeless Austin residents into mobile wireless hotspots outside the South by Southwest convention center. It’s part marketing stunt, part genuine charitable initiative — and it’s generating lots of double-takes and chatter from those who pass by. “I’m […]
Apple unveils its new, sharper iPad3
Apple said the new iPad, which will go on sale March 16, will have a screen with higher resolution than conventional high-definition televisions. Apple updated the iPad on Wednesday with a high-definition screen, faster wireless connection and several other refinements. As recent history has shown, though, even those relatively modest changes could be enough for […]
Nimer named new director for University of Miami’s cancer center
Dr. Stephen Nimer, one of the world’s premier leukemia and stem cell transplant researchers, will lead the University of Miami’s Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. Medical breakthroughs discovered in the laboratory can take a long time to be positioned into follow within the exam room, frequently as a result of there is little communique among analysis […]
Florida’s tribal casinos grew revenue by 1% in 2010, report says
An annual industry report shows that Indian gaming in Florida had slow growth in 2010 after two years of double-digit increases — but still raked in $2.06 billion. After years of dramatic growth, Florida’s eight tribal casinos — all but one operated by the Seminole Tribe — came back down to earth in 2010, growing […]
Fort Lauderdale air ambulance firms to operate jointly
Two longtime castle Lauderdale-primarily based competitors in the air ambulance business have merged to save lots of on costs and assist consumers. Aero Jet International and Air Ambulance Professionals combined operations this month, but will keep their names and existing hangars at Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport, Dawn Cerbone, executive director of the merged company, said […]
Dadeland, Miami’s Original Mall, To Get Major Upgrade
Dadeland Mall, South Florida’s first shopping mall and a South Dade landmark since 1962, will get it’s 5th major overhaul, with a new building housing restaurants and a new group of stores developers are calling the Kendall Wing. The mall will also see an expansion of the parking deck. The -tale growth used to be […]
Four years later, South Florida’s worst recession only hints at a real recovery
About 3 years ago in the depths of the recession, contractor George Cuesta was once hoping to land a small resort renovation process in South seaside. He didn’t get it, however no one else did either. The gutted construction sat idle off twenty second side road when the investment fell aside, as pigeons nested at […]
AT&T’s New Scheme To Double Charge For Data: Call It A 1-800 Number For Internet Content
Some of you youngsters may not remember what really kicked off the big “net neutrality” fight over the past few years. It was back in 2005, when then AT&T CEO Ed Whitacre suggested that internet companies should pay a second time to reach users. This was particularly nefarious. What Whitacre was suggesting was actually that […]
Health insurance refunds in Florida in the works
Hundreds of thousands of Floridians could be in line for perhaps $100 million of health insurance rebates in August, under a federal review process that began Thursday. The federal health care overhaul passed by Congress in 2010 forces insurers to pay rebates starting this year if they spend more than a certain amount of their […]
PIP reform bill passes Florida House
The Florida House voted 85-30 Friday to reform personal injury protection insurance, Florida’s no-fault auto coverage that lawmakers and insurers say is riddled with fraud and costing the state’s drivers millions of dollars. The measure, HB 119, would restrict treatment options for motorists injured in automobile accidents — PIP pays up to $10,000 for injuries […]
Miami Valley crime lab losing business to state
Three area police departments have dropped contracts with the Miami Valley Regional Crime Laboratory, and there is concern others will follow, threatening the viability of a lab that currently provides evidence analysis for 100 jurisdictions in southwest Ohio. The departures provide the first evidence that the downtown Dayton lab, which employs 26 other folks, is […]
Indicted Fort Lauderdale brothers facing new federal fraud charges
Already charged with running one of Florida’s biggest investment scams, Fort Lauderdale brothers Joel Steinger and Steven Steiner were arrested again Wednesday in connection with a new fraud conspiracy. A federal prosecutor known as Steinger a “serial” prison for allegedly conspiring along with his brother to create dummy companies that bilked $three million from health […]
Under the Sea: In the Age of Wireless, Can’t We Do Better than Intercontinental Fiber Optic Cables?
On Saturday, a ship waiting to enter the Kenyan port city of Mombasa wandered into a restricted area and dropped its anchor, inadvertently severing a major undersea Internet and phone link to East Africa. This kind of thing occurs every so often, but Saturday’s incident represents a selected stroke of bad timing. The cable severed […]
How South Florida’s top 1 percent live
The top 1 percent have a household income north of $400,000 a year — $401,600 in Broward County, $456,206 in Palm Beach County and $413,372 in Miami-Dade, according to a national survey of household incomes by Washington-based Sentier Research. In the membership are some big names like LeBron James, who makes $44 million a year; […]
XP loses ground to Windows 7 but still top OS
Windows XP lost more users to Windows 7 last month, but the decade-old platform continues to hold on as the most popular operating system Looking at OS stats for February, NetApplications found that XP’s percentage of the marketplace dipped to forty five percent from 47 p.c in January. on the related time, windows 7 grabbed […]
Terri Dial, former Citigroup exec, died in Miami
Terri Dial, whose work on the reshaping of Citigroup Inc. in 2008 culminated a three-decade banking career that made her a much-watched woman in business, has died. She was 62. She died Tuesday in a hospice in Miami, said a friend and family spokeswoman. The cause of death was pancreatic cancer. In 27 years at […]
Nokia 808 PureView smartphone unveiled with 41MP camera
Nokia has unveiled the 808 PureView smartphone featuring a 41-megapixel camera at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The handset runs Nokia’s dated Symbian working system, an element that could in the long run lead to US vendors passing on the chance to provide the PureView within the states. Popular photography notes that the PureView has […]
Dell’s New Enterprise Solutions All About End-to-End Speed and Simplicity
Dell used to be a company with a clever sales strategy that sold PCs, but it has increasingly focused on the IT/data center market. Dell has proved that as of late with a slew of acquisitions (a dozen just in the last year or so) and a substantial investment in R&D, and today it announced […]
Can Microsoft make Windows 8 the mobile OS?
It may seem odd that Microsoft executives are traveling all the way to Barcelona, Spain, to debut the beta version of the upcoming Windows 8 operating system at a mobile device show. But Microsoft, which has launched drugs and mobile phones lengthy prior to competitors simplest to see others dominate the ones businesses, is hoping […]
The Curious Case of Big Data
The advent of technologies that instantly analyze natural human language, along with the massive amounts and varieties of big data flowing from sensors, mobile devices, and the Web, are helping today’s data pioneers find answers as well as new questions to ask. Big-data technologies and new roles like the data scientist will enable companies and […]